Dubai Roaches looking for a home

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Itsmoe

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Hello, my child came home with two Dubai Roaches she won at school and she is ready to get rid of them as she doesn’t find them “ cute “ anymore.
I’m doing my best to feed them and give them water and keep them alive - but … I just don’t have time. I feel really bad giving them to someone who will use them as “ feeders” so I was wondering if anyone knows someone in the Huntington Beach area, Ca I can donate them to?

Thanks.
 
Itsmoe said:
Hello, my child came home with two Dubai Roaches she won at school and she is ready to get rid of them as she doesn’t find them “ cute “ anymore.
I’m doing my best to feed them and give them water and keep them alive - but … I just don’t have time. I feel really bad giving them to someone who will use them as “ feeders” so I was wondering if anyone knows someone in the Huntington Beach area, Ca I can donate them to?

Thanks.
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This probably isn't what you want to hear but it's the truth. It is a longshot to find someone who will take them as pets. I hope you find someone, I honestly do.
But if nobody will take them as pets, the "best" ugly option may be to put them in the freezer.
 
you could send them back to the school, who really shouldn't be sending bugs home with kids without the parents consent. they had to come from a colony somewhere, let the school get them returned to where they came from. or as bhjjr suggested you can euthanize them. (though I personally would use a much quicker and thus more humane way than freezing them)
 
bwhatch2 said:
(though I personally would use a much quicker and thus more humane way than freezing them)
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Freezing is honestly the only humane way I'm aware of. Trying to chop their head off doesn't work, because they can still live for weeks after and slowly die from starvation. Feeding them off isn't fun for them, either. Freezing is the quickest, lowest stress-causing euthanization method.
 
Dianna said:
Freezing is honestly the only humane way I'm aware of. Trying to chop their head off doesn't work, because they can still live for weeks after and slowly die from starvation. Feeding them off isn't fun for them, either. Freezing is the quickest, lowest stress-causing euthanization method.
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as barbaric as it may sound, smashing them is the fastest way to do it. humane refers to the manner of death of the animal, not how palatable it is to us humans. we might not like the idea of it but smashing ends things in a milisecond, freezing is pretty long and drawn out. freezing is not humane, its not painless, its not low stress. to test your theory go sit outside in the freezing cold how long do you think you could sit outside in freezing cold weather before your hands and feet were in painful agony?

do some googleing and read any number of articles on the topic and you will pretty much hear the following, (fyi, I didnt write the below it's just a cut and paste...)
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the slow formation of ice crystals within tissues has been posited as a potentially agonizing, protracted death if the insect has any capacity for suffering. While entomologists often use freezing to preserve specimens, rapid mechanical destruction is considered a more definitive and immediate method for euthanasia.




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